Example sentences of "[prep] an [noun] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After an increase in solar activity which increased atmospheric density an older style Soviet space station , the 40-tonne Salyut 7 launched in April 1982 [ see pp. 31596 ; 37195 ] , re-entered the earth 's atmosphere in early February 1991 . |
| 2 | After an HND in commercial horticulture at Chelmsford , Ric spent two years with the Great Gardens of England production nursery at Blenheim Palace , four years as grounds supervisor at an agriculture college in Brecon , and seven years running his own market garden . |
| 3 | After an education in private schools , he became a laboratory assistant at the Runcorn Soap & Alkali Co . |
| 4 | After an article in New Scientist which summarised the findings of FoE and Nilghard , R G Pawsey wrote from the Department of Forestry in Aberdeen University that ‘ there is no evidence that acid rain or any other pollution factor is significantly affecting the general health of forest and other trees in this country . |
| 5 | Despite an increase in frontal area of 0.14m , the overall drag coefficient of Safrane is still excellent ranging from 0.28 to 0.30 depending on model . |
| 6 | PROFITS of French state-owned bank Credit Lyonnais fell nearly 11 p.c. last year to Ffr408m despite an increase in new business . |
| 7 | However , despite an increase in collaborative ventures criticisms have been made of this form of organisation . |
| 8 | Despite an improvement in overseas business activity in the financial services sector in the UK it is likely to be flat over the next quarter , according to the latest CBI/Coopers Deloitte quarterly survey of financial services . |
| 9 | ( Gledhill 1954 , p. 44 ) This demand for a wider and less myopic frame of analysis has only recently and partially begun to be met , primarily in a shift towards an interest in actual spectatorship , but also in related issues such as the experience of viewing and the role of cultural differences in film reception and production . |
| 10 | At forty-one , six feet two and a half inches tall , with the face of a handsome pirate and the body of an athlete in tip-top condition , Jared was worth two of anyone 's looks , and his serenely beautiful blonde wife Mary was no less remarkable . |
| 11 | Michael Smyth from the University of Ulster at Jordanstown said that although there were strong indications of an upturn in recent months , Northern Ireland may be facing tough times ahead . |
| 12 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 13 | To argue over the logic or truth of an idea in absolute terms is to explore the nature of belief itself , but for an historian of ideas what is most interesting is ‘ who held a particular belief at a particular time and what needs it fulfilled for them . |
| 14 | The success of an individual in biological terms depends on his ability to leave successful descendants . |
| 15 | The small rush moth has been found at sites 200 metres higher than the limit of its habitat recorded in 1954 — the equivalent of an increase in average annual temperatures of one degree . |
| 16 | Even as early as 1919 scientists warned of the dangers of an increase in atmospheric CO2 concentrations . |
| 17 | As the increase in synthesis in rectal mucosa from patients with inflammatory bowel disease was very much less than this , the increase in whole body protein turnover in such patients is not solely because of an increase in colonic protein synthesis . |
| 18 | The possibility of an increase in Japanese interest rates was raised , but seemed to be ruled out for the present by the Finance Minister , Ryutaro Hashimoto , in a statement made after his return to Tokyo . |
| 19 | On March 17 the government moderated some of the impact of the railway budget introduced on Feb. 25 [ see p. 38762 ] , with concessions for second-class rail season tickets and the withdrawal of an increase in long-distance sleeper charges , amounting to a total loss in revenue of Rs600,000,000 . |
| 20 | Bearing in mind the Opposition 's unalloyed joy at the thought of an increase in national insurance contributions for people who earn more than that , is it time that the Opposition came clean on their plans for the self-employed , who are the engine of the power house for this country ? |
| 21 | The finding therefore of an increase in collagen-stimulated thromboxane production by CS 11 could be explained by an increased availability of arachidonic acid from membrane phospholipids ( Jackson et al , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | Disturbed by the evidence of an increase in organized hostility towards the Jews during 1938 , Neville Laski used his contacts with Special Branch at Scotland Yard to employ a recently retired inspector to penetrate the NL for the Board of Deputies . |
| 23 | While payments made to telecommunication operators increased 7.1% because of an increase in outgoing and transit international calls and the weakness of sterling , revenues actually generated from international calls were flat at £1,859m due to price reductions on both incoming and outgoing calls . |
| 24 | A change in body weight with ageing may be partly the result of an increment in fat mass . |
| 25 | The results are consistent with the presence of an abnormality in terminal ileal function in patients with cystic fibrosis who do not have liver disease and that a defect in the ileal absorption of bile acids may be a contributory factor to excessive faecal bile acid loss . |
| 26 | In this respect the answering of an examination question differs somewhat from the giving of an opinion in legal practice , A practitioner will not argue legal points unnecessarily . |
| 27 | An advertisement upon the outer wall advised Lucien of the advantages of an ennubelation in lively-sprig essence . |
| 28 | In the same year , Moncada et al ( 1976a ) reported the presence of an enzyme in aortic tissue which converted prostaglandin endoperoxides to a potent unstable inhibitor of platelet aggregation . |
| 29 | It will be recalled ( see p. 97 ) that the most convincing demonstration of an effect in latent inhibition came from the experiment by |
| 30 | Finally , in lighter vein , modern scientists would have no difficulty in exposing the falsity of an entry in honest Kepler 's notebook , following observations through a Galilean , telescope , which reads , ‘ Mars is square and intensely coloured ’ . |